Theres a 1 min freq somewhere during peak hour lol. Confirm
bunch.
Add 2 DD, cause the first two fleet add trips were spaced with
28min interval. Not possible for 1 bus.
total 13 full west+east trips added.Should be under BSEP.
What I feel SBST should do is have 1 or 2 standby buses then
deploy for east loop when freq cui until 10-18mins like last year,
before the P came, where a white man (then green man) will be at
the east loop berth monitoring pax queue if spill out of queue line
walkietalkie to office deploy bus for east loop.
Somehow the 291P driver will not allow full pax boarding from
tamp int so the next stop pax can board.
I personally witnessed a couple of instances where the freq
becomes 19mins at east loop then 291P comes at the right time..
Actual AM/PM peak frequency is 03 minutes, but with these two
buses added frequency will be 02 minutes during peak hours. As I
mentioned before adding PPSS buses did not really help relieve the
queue. When bus comes 30 pax board and bus gone (that too with some
force).
When KUB comes, bus takes 70 pax and DD takes 100 pax... queue
immediately gets relieved for the next load that comes by the
subsequent train arriving at Tampines. Also, many times buses get
blocked at Tampines itself coz other services are hogging the
queue. This also inevitably leads to bunching.
How about dedicated boarding for 291/293 at the end of
interchange where sv 23/81 are... this way bus comes, people board
and bus leaves.. Delays due to waiting for bus in front to move
wont be there. Just a thought!! (Con: a little more walking for ppl
to do)
